Quotes About Uncertainty

Se dio cuenta de que era mucho más fácil hallarse a las puertas de algo que haberlas cruzado.

Belki kelimesi beni rahats?z etmeye baÅŸlam??t? çünkü sabit olan tek ÅŸey 'belkiler'in sonsuza dek benimle kalabilecek olmas?yd?.

and shivered like the future.

The bombs were coming - and so was I.

caughtoutedness. Some examples: People jumping out of alleys. Schoolteachers suddenly being aware of every sin you've ever committed. Police showing up at the door each time a leaf turns or a distant gate slams shut.

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me for ever. Maybe

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This

Le gustaban los corrillos apretados y lo desconocido. La agridulce sensación de la incertidumbre: Ganar o perder.

With the rest of them, he stood around the bed and watched the man die—a safe merge, from life to death. The light in the window was gray and orange, the color of summer's skin, and his uncle appeared relieved when his breathing disappeared completely. "When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist on his face.

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

Not that it was a living hell. It wasn't. But it sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.

War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition.

She had her whole death ahead of her

It's a lot easier, she realised, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

Por el momento, con la idea tenía suficiente. Era indestructible. Hacerla realidad... Bueno, eso ya era otro cantar.

Everything about this evening is both exquisite and bewildering and I can't decide if I want to go on with this dream or run back down the yellow-lit rock to the stable. But the stable door is closed.

The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it.

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

The world is boiling. You hardly dare open a paper these days: the news is all of cataclysm and collapse. Tempers are threadbare; the yobs are winning; everybody accepts the fact that they've got to get nastier in order to survive. The world is going bad on us. I'm having nothing to do with it.

You never gave me an answer,' Anna said. "Which do you think I am, insane or a tramp?' 'Do you want to see me again?' Joe asked. 'Yes.' 'Then you must be insane.

There are not many road signs in Russia, you know.' He laughed. 'If you don't know where the road goes, you shouldn't be on it.'" — Arkady Renko from Gorky Park